Machine for measuring and cutting cloth.



No. 846,259. PATENTED MAR. 5, 1907. P. s. SWAN & N. FRASER. MACHINE FOR MEASURING AND CUTTING CLOTH.

APPLIUATION' FILED MAR: 26, 1906.

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MACHINE FOR MEASURING AND CUTTING CLOTH. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 26, 1906.

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MACHINE FOR MEASURING AND CUTTING CLOTH. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 2a, 1906.

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ATTORNEY No. 846,259. PATENTED MAR. 5, 1907.

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MACHINE FOR MEASURING AND CUTTING CLOTH.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 26, 1906.

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P. s. SWAN & ,N. FRASER.

MACHINE FOR MEASURING AND CUTTING CLOTH.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 26, 1906.

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ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PA E T OFFIGE.

PETER sMITII SWAN," or CALOUTTA, INDIA, AND NORMAN FRASER, 011

ARBROATH, SCOTLAND. a

MACHI E FOR MEASURING AND o u 'r'rme CLQTH.

Specification of Letter's'Patent.

Patented. March 5, 1907.

Application liled March 1906. Serial No. 308.136.

To all whom it "may concermfl and NORMAN FRAsER,-subjects of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, and residents, re-

spectively, 'of- Calcutta, India, and As'broath, Scotland, have invented certain new and use- ;ful Improvements in' Machines for Measuring I and Cutting Cloth andv the Like, and of which one time in an expeditious and satisfactory manner.

In order thattllellnventlon and the manner of performing. the same may beproperly enlarged scale, of the spur-wheel 14. Fig. 4.

' 15, and fast and loose pulleys 16 from any.

- shaft 12 runs continuously while the machine;

understood, the accompanying drawings are I annexed, in which' Figure 1 is a front elevation of a measuring and cutting machine in which the invention is-incorporated. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. '3 is a side elevation, on an is a section of the same on the line a 1), Fig.3.

' b Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the spur-wheels 17 and 18. Fig. 6 is a transverse section of the same. Fig. 7 is a transverse section of the two pinions- 19 and .20 on an enlarged scale. Fig. 8 is an end elevation of the same. Figs. 9 and 10 are elevations of the cutting mechanism. Fig. 1 1 is a modificaltion of the same.

Fig. 12 is a plan view of the chan e-wheel de vice. Fig. 13 is an elevation of t e same.

In carrying out the invention there is provided a main shaft 12, carried in suitable bearin in the framing 13- of the machine and driven through a spur-wheel 14, pinion convenient source of power, so that the-main is Working. The spur-wheel 14 is shown separately and to an enlarged scale in side elevation in Fig verse section in' i 3,'Sheet 3, and. in transg. 4', the sectionbeing taken on the line a b, Fig. 3. or, instead of the machine being driven by ower it may be driven by hand. Onthe s aft,12 there are also ,two other spur-wheels in the form of rings 17 18, one within the other (shown sepa-' rately in side elevation in Fig; 5 and in transverse section in Fig. 6,) these ringsbeing car- Be it known that we, PETER SMITH SWAN be only one stud,) projecting out from its en ried on-the inner face of the spur-wheel 14 by.

bolts passed throu h holes 10 in them and the spur-wheel. T e teeth of these wheels 17 v18 are interrupted, as shown, so that they give an intermittent motion, as hereinafter.

described,to two pinions 19 20, one,,'19, of which is keyed onand drives a'shaft 21, carried in bearings in the framing 13 and actuating the measuring mechanism, the other, 20,

bemg' secured to and driving a shaft 22, also carried in bearings in the framing and actuating the cuttin -mechanism, all as hereinafter described. T e two pinions 19 20 are shown to a still furtherenlarged scale in transverse section in Fig. 7 and in end elevation in Fig.

8. They eachcarry two studs 23, (or it ma the pinions being so gearedwiththeir respective spur-wheels 17 18 that the studs 23 can slide in grooves 24 25 concentric with and formed for them in the'inn'er side of the spurwheel 14. The lengths of these grooves are iolgroportioned that the pinions 19 '20 are e while the toothless part of their respective spur-wheelsfl or 18 is passing them. By t ese means it is insured that the inions correctly mesh again with the toot ed portion firmly and prevented from v revolving of the wheels and resume their motionat the correct time. M

The measuring shaft 21 drives through gearing 26, changeable to permit of different lengths of cloth being measured, measuringroll'ers27 28, carried in hearings in brackets 29, secured to theupper part of the framing 13, so that at each motion of the shaft 21 these 'rollers pull the desired length of cloth 30 in superposed layers, according to the number -of thicknesses which it may be desired to measure off at one time through the usual rack 31, and these rollers 27 28 pass the cloth so measured off over a table 43 and undera" resser-bar 32, hinged to the brackets 29 and workin in conjunction with a cutting-knife 33 in the form of a disk, as hereinafter described. v

The cutting-shaft 22; actuates, through bevel-gear 34, a disk 35, carrying acrank-pm 36, which-through a connecting-rod 37drives a lever 39, centered at,its upper end in the framing 13 and carrying a toothed sector 38 .on its lower end. The sector 38 gears with a pinion 40, driving a shaft 41, on whichis ke ed a drum 42-, chains or ropes 44 attache to rack 60 and pinion'59 may be dispensed'with: as the knir'e'in passing through thecloth is thereby made 'to'revoiveas it travels, and where the rack and-pinion are dispensed with a which pass over guide-pulleys 45 dfifificarried by the framing 13 and table. 13 to the opposite ends of. a saddle 48,, carrying the knife 33. This saddle 18 slides in a rail 49 on the under side ofthe table 43, and thegearing is so proportioned that the knife,"which cuts in both directions, makes exactly one stroke to each half-revolution of the crank-pin 36.

The main shaft 12 carries two grooved cams :51, which, acting through-levers 52 53,

centered on pins 63 in the framing and side rods 54 55,- raise and depress the presser-bar 32; This bar has in it a slot 57 toallow the:

knife33, whichp'roj'eets through a slot-in the table43',-to also protrudefrom below through 58; revolving in suitable hearings in the sad dle 481- On the spindle 58 is also keyed a small pinion-'59, gearingwith a fixed rack 'on the underside of-thetalfle 43. This causes the diskcutter-33 to'revolve as it traverses,-with. the result that-as the edgeof the. knifeforms 1 an angle with the edge of the groove '57 'in' the bar 32 a'cutting action-is also obtained, com

bined I with theshearing action, or= the instead of a disk cutter '33 an ordinaryibladeknife maybe used, as shown in Fig, 10,which is an elevationsimila' r to FigrQ. in" operation theypresser bar 32 is first raised and heldup'by the-cams 50- 51 acting through'the levers 52 53 and rods 54 55. The

measuring-rollers 27- 28 are then rotated through the gearin '26, hereinbeforedescribed, and deliver t e determined length of' cl0th'30 and stop. The cams bring down'the presser-loar. traverse and rotate,

Instead of a stationar rackfifl being ernloyed to give the revs vingmotionto the ife 33 a pitch-chain'til'and sprocket-wheels 62 may be substituted therefor,as shown in Fig.=11,-which-is an'elevation similar to Figs, 9'and10, the wheels 62' being driven man upposite direction to that of the wheels 45 47 through suitable gearing from the drumshaft 41 I In'ord'er that withchange wheels fora spe cific length of cloththe amount of extra material necessary to; be measured off to {form a hem, for; example, vmay be varied, a s stem of 'gearlng'in'which separate sets of c 'ange whe'cls are provided formeasuring. off the length of cloth and formeasuring oif- Then the knife 33 is made'to ash'ereinbefore de-- scribed, and the cloth is cut, the cycle of operations being repeated as long as the main" shaft 12 is kept'running;

se ate an extra amount "forthe' hem may be used, the arrangement also allowing. of finer adjustinent than the dfierence of two teeth, which=of course is the least which can be obtained with the ordinary change-Wheels hereinheforedescribed. Such Qadevice comprises, essentially, an epicyclic train, which may be of anyform, onemember of which is connected to, the measuring-rollers, the second memher'of which is driven by the gearing for the cloth measurement, and the third member er which is driven'bygearing for the hem" measurement. According to the example" shown? diagrammatically in plan in -l igr 12,:Sheet '5', and'in elevationin- Fig. 13, Sheet' 6, the epieyelic trainis of the ordinaryhevel type, the orbital pinions 65 of which are carried in adisk having a pinion '66, formed upon" its edge. This disk is loose on a shaft 67, Whichhas-fixed to its outer end the bevel-wheel P 68 of the epicyclic train. Thesecond bevel-wheel 69 is carried on a sleeve 7 O,loose-on this shaft, and there is also on this sleeve a pinion 71. To the shaft 67, towhich is fixed the bevel-pinion 68,- there is fixed the first piniorrof a train ofthree 26, which drives the measuring roller. '28. The pinion 71 is driven from a pinion 72, carried on the shaft 21, whichhas on it the pinion 19, which gears with-the interrupted spur-Wheel :17. The pinions 71 and 72 gear with anintermediatepinion 73, which is so arranged that various sizes of pinions 72 may be used tov give various ratios. The train'of' gearing just described isthat for -measuring 'ofi the-cloth, and it operates asfollows, supposing in the mean t1me that the-disk-pinion'66 beheld stationary: The pinion 7 2 through the intermediate pinion 73 drives the; pinion 71, this pinion 71 eing "connected to the bevel pinion 69 by the sleeve-70. It through the orbital pinions 65', carried in the disk pinion 66,"ret'ates the other bevehpinion' 68 ofthe epicyclic train inthe opposite direction. This bevel-pinion 68being 'fast on the shaft' 67- I rotates that shaft, an'd'so' the first"pinion; fast on that shaft, of'the' train 26 driving the measurin'grollers. 7 w 7 It will beseen that 'iiithe disk+pi11ion-fi6 is slowly rotated in the opposite direction: to the bevel-wheel 69 that the speed the opposite direction to the bevel-wheel 169 of the other bevel-wheel '68 will be enhanced-that is, there willhe a constant percentageoi addition to its movement. Thisj-percentage of addition" constitutes the hemnnng measurement and is brought abouti'b'v' the'iollowing gearing: Upon'the-shaft 21 there is fixed a worm 74, which gears with" aworm-wheel' 75-, fixed on a diagonal shaft 7 6,which carries at 'its other end a bevelrwheel 77, gearing with hen-inter- 

